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One kinda hoped that France were holding the World Cup for Slackers instead of Rugby at the moment...Alas they're not!! So, the Wildchaps will just have to wait till it becomes an olympic sport before entering......On that note, I'm truly sorry for the silence. Hey, look at it this way, if it were truly golden, then we'd be rich as &^$%!!!..haha

What the past six weeks have done though is given me an epic tale for y'all...So grab a d.cap.mog, sit back, and enjoy the tales of Africa.

I figure, as always, it's best to start from what's freshest in my mind....

We've just finshed our latest group of kids. Good week!!! This'd be the second year we've done the leadership program for older students and all went off without a hitch. Either they were really well behaved, or just sneaky enough to get away with stuff without us noticing, I'd like to think it was the former. But an awesome week by any means(we've still got the second half of them at the end of the month though???). I did manage to show this lot how to catch a tiger on command though, which impressed them no end.

Speaking of the tiger. Last week got me a season record!!! Alas, it was, as always, below that elusive 7kg mark, but i reckon 6.8kgs and close on 30minutes of doggish fighting is as good as any man can ask for. Sadly, after a fight like that, I was unable to revive the beast but he went a long way to providing us with the tastiest of treats over a few days.

Generally speaking, summer has hit us with a vengeance and it's brought with it some awesome fishing. Plenty is to be had on all fronts. Except of course the Cornish Jack thingy!! We tried again this full moon and struggled endlessly. Between the mozzies and the squeakers, we're not entirely sure who won out, but it sure as hell wasn't myself or the neighbours !!!

Going back to the week gone by quickly, we had rather a disturbing experience. Something I can't infact joke about!! Anyone who's ever spent time on a boat in Zambia(or freshwater for that fact), knows that very few poeple wear their 'kill-switch'. But, mid-week, I discovered what it's there for. To cut a long story short, we had to rescue some zimbabweans from the water after they came off their boat. Relatively harmless sounding??? Until you see the violence with which a boat goes round and round and round and round without anyone controlling it. Pretty hectic I tell you!!!! But at the end of the day, we were lucky to get everyone involved out of the water safely and they even managed to get the boat back after it eventually ploughed into an island somewhere downstream. Needless to say, I have a new respect for the little red rope I'm s'posed to put round my wrist when driving!!!

As far as other things go, we've abandoned the previous builder(I won't comment on here) and I'll be doing the buying next week in Lusaka for the new guy. After that it's full steam ahead with the renovations and stuff.

Haha...Renovations??? How about rebuilding?? At the moment it seems that everything I look at needs to be redone. We won't talk about the thatch yet cos that's coming soon, but the other day we discovered that due to the staff's 'ingenuity'(i.e. laziness) in deciding not to put the leaf trap in the weir of the pool(cos the filter has one?????) the intake pipe got sooooooo blocked up that we had to dig the whole thing up and pretty much re-do the piping. Idiots!!! I s'pose I should've pre-empted it...but then one can't micro-manage everything??

Mmmmm...hahaha, the list of things that've gone on recently is endless.......take for instance last weekend's trip to town. All keen to do the shopping and not so keen for town I thought I'd leave on Saturday morning at 7am and be back on Sunday afternoon......All well and good?? Until the water pump on the cruiser packed up just after the Kafue Bridge. Stupid thing!!! That put a 3hr delay on my trip which meant a:) I missed the bank, b:) I then had to fight with shoprite to let me pay by check and c:) ?Just a rubbish trip to town........Wake up Peter!!! You Live in Africa...nothing ever goes as planned!!!

Haha, just thinking about Kafue........A couple of week's back, late as usual, I managed to once again have myslef arrested for 'extremerry' dangerous driving. The best part of this experience is that it took the 5'0's all the way to the road-block to catch up with me for an offence I allegedly committed in Kafue town(10km back.....they did phone the raodblock though and I had everyone waiting for me in full uniform, hi-viz, gloves and all!!). Looking back, the only sin I'd committed was passing(a truck going 15kph) on a solid white, not a curve as the fuzz claimed. But then at 17h00 one is not exactly in a position to argue. Ultimately, the most amusing part of the 'negotiation' was when the officer asked me if I would be 'comfortable' if they jst put me in cuffs as an act to show they'd arrested me?????

Man, I'm starting to realise why blogging on a regular basis would benefit me in the long run....this here thang is turning into quite a novel??? And for that reason, I'll fill you in on the other amusing things that've happened(the croc ppl's arrival, Kairara,etc.) when I can over coming weeks.....for now though, it's onto forthcoming attractions....

October is here!!!!! And that means one thing......'Friends only'....As it stands it seems the 'Wildchaps' team, will be only Two ( Myself & Captain Kevin ''mos' deadly'' Macaulay) but I am most confident that we will, as local boys, put on a mighty show and teach the Baha Men from 'the other side' a lesson. We will have to wait and see though, last time I promised potential, we failed miserably. But, come the 20th, we will be M-en O-f S-erious I-ntentions!!!!

Once again my friends, I'm truly apologetic for the slackness, I will indeed try harder in coming weeks to fill you in...

For now though......Rock the boat.....The Commodore;)